DIY Reef Controller

[WSPepsilon]

I think there would be interest in it yes. How are the diy vids coming?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2

 

[rott]

Sounds like a cool side project if one of my sensors go bad do we just
Solder on a new one? I would think you can then just have to re calibrate right

 

[nkd5024]

I don't see why your sensor would go bad but yes you could just solder in a new chip.

For anyone else who orders from Itead, when did their shipping costs double? They now charge $44 for DHL shipping and $29 for standard airmail.

 

[rott]

every thing goes bad sooner or later and usually at the worst time

 

[Reef55]

Great thread, amazing work Nick!

Not to throw a monkey wrench.... but here's a 7" TFT touchscreen for $67 shipped:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-7-0-inch-...389?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d89e4105

 

[nkd5024]

That is a huge wrench. This project is taking up a ton of my time and I still don't have the 5" screen code working yet.

 

[nkd5024]

Remind me about the screen in a month or so :lmao:

 

[gbru316]

great build, I may have to pursue something like this down the road.

OT: are you/were you a penn state student at some point?

 

[nkd5024]

Yep, how'd you know?

 

[gbru316]

Yep, how'd you know?

username format. I'm a student at the harrisburg campus.

 

[shark boy]

nkd5024,
what programming class are you taking?

 

[nkd5024]

Right now I am taking part two of an intro to java class. It just goes into inheritance and other oop type topics.

 

[nkd5024]

Update for anyone who has gotten boards, Itead is acting weird lately and hasn't responded to any emails or even confirmed my order yet. Its been three days and I am planning to give them until Friday to respond in case they are just swamped from the Chinese new years.

If they don't respond by Friday I will have to cancel the order and try out fusion pcb from seeed studio. I really hope they are just catching up as I really liked their service.

 

[overexposed]

I placed an order for PCBs from Itead while they were off for Chinese New Years, and I got my order on Monday.

 

[nkd5024]

I actually just got an email from Sunny confirming that they received the gerber files.

 

[nkd5024]

The digikey group order just arrived this morning, check out the facebook page for some photos!

 

[Calepy86]

Awesome so did they give you an estimated delivery date on the boards?

 

[nkd5024]

Nope, all they said is that they take around 10 days to ship the boards out. Since I had to go with standard shipping I've heard it takes around two weeks to arrive.

 

[rott]

That is a huge pile of tiny parts

Also just wanted to say thank you for all the work and time you are puting in to this

 

[Michal S]

It is instead set fahrenheit to celsius degrees